5G-Xcast was one of the 5G-PPP Phase-II projects present at the 28th edition of European Conference on Networks and Communications, EuCNC 2019, held 18-21 June in Valencia (Spain). The conference, which gathered large amounts of experts from multiple industries, research centers, universities and business on telecommunications, was the ideal scenario to present our latest results [...]

5G-Xcast project was heavily involved in the 2019 IEEE Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB'19) conference held by the Korea Institute of Broadcast and Media Engineers (KIBME) and the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in Jeju, South Korea. The conference, which took place from the 5th to the 7th of June, gathered hundreds of experts on [...]

5G-Xcast project was present at the #5GMEDIAROAD2019, a two days event on 5G media production and distribution organised by the 5G-PPP MediaRoad project and hosted by IRT. The event held during 8th and 9th May counted with the collaboration of multiple projects and initiatives like 5G Media and served as the scenario for the launch [...]

Professor David Gomez-Barquero, Project Manager of 5G-Xcast, gave a lecture on Broadcast and Multicast Communications Enablers for 5G at the University of Cagliari (Italy). The lecture was organized by the Italian Chapter of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society (BTS) as part of the IEEE BTS Distinguished Lecturer program. In his lecture, Prof. Gomez-Barquero presented an [...]

Professor David Gomez-Barquero, Project Manager of 5G-Xcast, gave a keynote on 5G Challenges and Opportunities for Media Innovation at the 2019 IEEE Broadcast Technology Society (BTS) Young Professionals workshop organized by Brunel University in Uxbridge, West London (UK). The theme of the workshop was “5G Challenges and Opportunities for Innovation in Broadband Multimedia and Broadcasting”. [...]

Menno Bot (one2many) represented 5G-Xcast project at the 2018 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop, held in Hong Kong, China, last November. At the event, Menno gave a talk about the 5G-Xcast project and its focus on providing broadcast in 5G for various use-cases and drilled down further to the Public Warning use-case. In addition, the [...]

Dr. Athul Prasad from 5G-Xcast project gave a talk at the IEEE BTS Broadcast Symposium 2018, held in Arlington, Virginia, USA. The talk mainly dealt with: 5G Facts, Fiction, & Impacts for the Future of Broadcasting, and importantly about the role of 5G-Xcast which is developing a unified framework for common content delivery in 5G. [...]

The modern Nokia’s headquarters complex was the venue of the 5G-Xcast 6th face-to-face project meeting, hosted by Nokia in Espoo, Finland. From the 25th to the 27th of September, 5G-Xcast partners gathered to track the progress of the different work packages and discuss the design of several trials and Proof-of-Concept (PoC) solutions. PoC designs are [...]

During the last edition of the International Broadcasting Congress (IBC 2018), 5G-Xcast project was involved in different talks and practical demonstrations about the use of multicast and broadcast solutions for the new 5G system. Talks 5G-Xcast project manager, Dr. David Gomez Barquero (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia), and 5G-Xcast technical manager during the first half of [...]

3GPP held in June 2018 the RAN plenary meeting in La Jolla (USA), where the final scope of Release 16 study items and work items was defined. One of the topics that 5G-Xcast is following closely is the multicast/broadcast support for Release 16. There have been earlier attempts to introduce a Study Item on 5G [...]

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